Monday, May 19, 2014

The World Economic Forum is perhaps best known for its annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland,

which brings together heads of state, CEOs of some of the world's largest companies, and assorted other movers and shakers for a week of speeches, panels, and workshops in the Swiss Alps each January. But the Forum also works year-round through its network of over eighty global agenda councils, which address a diverse range of topics including biotechnology, climate change, energy security, and youth unemployment.
Since last year, I've been a member of the Forum's global agenda council on the intellectual property system. We've taken a careful look at the forces shaping how people are creating and sharing digital media today, and perhaps even more importantly, what the world of digital media will look like in the coming years.

Content distribution models are shifting towards instantaneous, ubiquitous access, often using social networks
New technologies, big data, and the growth of virtual content are reshaping the creative economy landscape
The traditional lines between content creators and content consumers are blurring, with consumers playing an increasingly important role in collaborative content creation
Business models for digital content distribution are changing, with licensing and service-based delivery models replacing traditional sales-based distribution
Commerce in creative works is increasingly global -- but national and regional intellectual property frameworks have yet not caught up with the full range of cross-border content movement enabled by today's technologies
Technology is making it easier to modify and redistribute content. The resulting complex chains of "derivative works" provide increased opportunities to capture creativity, but also create challenges to managing copyright.
Many aspects of these trends are obvious. It's not news to anyone that technology has altered how we create and distribute content, that business models for media distribution have evolved dramatically over the last decade, or that intellectual property laws need to be updated. But articulating the key trends impacting digital media can provide a useful framework for rethinking intellectual property, both at the level of individual companies as well on a national and global scale.

For example, if your business uses crowdsourcing to capture the collective creative input of a large customer base (or for content distributors, a large audience), there are important questions that can arise regarding ownership of the associated intellectual property -- questions that don't always end with the terms of use that your customers accept as a condition of joining your ecosystem. If your company is contemplating a business model that includes cross-border distribution of certain types of digital media, you will likely encounter a complex licensing landscape that can make it difficult to maximize your market reach.

Addressing the many challenges of doing business in a global digital media environment requires not only working effectively within existing intellectual property frameworks, but also helping policymakers identify ways in which those frameworks can be suitably updated. The trends listed above can provide context for conversations serving both of those ends. The result can be a set of intellectual property solutions allowing content creators to reach larger and more engaged audiences, consumers to benefit from increased choice, and the businesses that connect them to broaden the scope of their products and services.

Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Human will atrophy just like the materialized person and mechanized body as the modern society evolute. But at any time Human is still a particle,a sand among the vast universe.

In my opinion, humans ruling the world is a myth. Humans actually draw boundaries, like to believe that they are in possession of certain portion of land and other natural resources, try to control others, try to extend the existing boundaries by fighting for the resources falling in others boundaries and get psychological satisfaction that we rule others. We are no different from other animals, where the powerful / smart one's rule and the weak obey.

Actually the world is ruled by nature and we humans are also at nature's mercy. Even the so called super powers are helpless when it comes to facing nature's wrath.

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

women from 19th century industrial revolution historical documentary about the people

The industrial revolution that transformed western Europe and the United States

during the course of the nineteenth century had its origins in the introduction of power-driven machinery in the English and Scottish textile industries in the second half of the eighteenth century. But far more than the cotton textile industry was transformed in the course of that revolution. Non-industrial wage labor increased; urban centers grew; and in farming areas, outwork occupations and commercial agriculture transformed the rural labor market. Finally, these economic developments coincided with dramatic changes in family life, particularly declining family size and increasing life expectancy. A greater role for women in the labor force, contemporary politics, and reform activities was certainly one of the unintended consequences of technological change in nineteenth-century America.

The industrial revolution in the United States was dependent from the outset on the transatlantic movement of British immigrants and British technology, including the adoption of the spinning jenny, water frame, and spinning mule that made the textile industry possible. The flood of British exports to the United States after the American Revolution stimulated efforts to replicate the inventions that gave English manufacturers such an advantage in the American marketplace. Out of these efforts emerged the first permanent cotton spinning mill in the United States, in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. English emigrant Samuel Slater—himself a former apprentice at the English textile firm of Arkwright & Strutt—reconstructed an Arkwright water frame under the sponsorship of Providence merchants William Almy and Moses Brown. The firm of Almy, Brown, & Slater pioneered in the machine production of cotton yarn between 1790 and 1840. This company expanded, gave rise to a number of other firms, and established the basic set of business practices that came to be called the Rhode Island system. These southern New England textile firms followed British practices, employing entire families, with children comprising the vast majority of the mill workforce. While the mills focused on carding and spinning, they relied on rural and urban hand weavers to finish the cloth. Thus the first cotton textile mills were very much a part of the region's rural landscape.

The success of these first factories spawned new competitors, however, and the new factories contributed to a wave of urbanization in northern New England. The new wave of textile investment followed on the heels of a famous bit of industrial espionage by Boston merchant Francis Cabot Lowell. Lowell visited mills in Great Britain and, on his return to Massachusetts, began efforts to reconstruct the power loom he had seen there. By 1814 he had succeeded and, armed with a charter of incorporation from the state legislature, he established the Boston Manufacturing Company in Waltham, Massachusetts.